A26883:892
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who,…Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who,…
Richard Baxter's Catholic theology plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriors who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,Richard Baxter's Catholick theologie plain, pure, peaceable, for pacification of the dogmatical word-warriours who, 1. by contending about things unrevealed or not understood, 2. and by taking verbal differences for real,
London: printed by Robert White for Nevill Simmons, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. And you will see that the same effect may have several causes: a Good and bad; And so God may be a cause of that effect, which mans sin also concurreth to cause: And God doth not therefore Will or Cause the sin.
4. And you will see that God may morally cause the effect as it is on this object rather than another forbidden, though both make the act sinful, and yet not Cause it as it is exercised on either of those objects compared with such as are not forbidden.
592. And you will here plainly see that God hath many ways to Cause the effect without willing or Causing the sin. As for instance, 1. He can do it by adding (as I said before) a good act to the sinners bad one. As when Caiaphas is willing to kill Christ, God can put into Caiaphas's 1thoughts, the jealousy of the Romans over the Jews, and the visible danger they are in if they should be thought to have another King: which thoughts in themselves are true and good: So he can put into Pharaoh's thoughts the loss of the Israelites service, which was not sinful of it self.2
592. And you will here plainly see that God hath many wayes to Cause the effect without willing or Causing the sin. As for instance, 1. He can do it by adding (as I said before) a good act to the sinners bad one. As when Caiaphas is willing to kill Christ, God can put into Caiaphas's 1thoughts, the jealousie of the Romans over the Jews, and the visible danger they are in if they should be thought to have another King: which thoughts in themselves are true and good: So he can put into Pharaoh's thoughts the loss of the Israelites service, which was not sinful of it self.